Comments on: WordPress Tip: Remove WLW and RSD Link

By: Will

Will — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:29:35 +0000

If you use wordpress purely for CMS and know that your not ever going to use a site set up for blogs or flickr etc. then this is technique is good to trim page loading times.

Thanks for heads up wphacks

By: Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:14:40 +0000

Joseph,

Some good points you made online just now.

josephscott: the RSD (really simple discovery) is the discover mechanism used by XML-RPC clients
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josephscott: other places you may use XML-RPC and not realize it is places like flickr and google docs
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josephscott: we are seeing more and more folks using remote APIs (XML-RPC/AtomPub), having folks suggest that people remove the code needed for them to work properly just makes for more support work

So, in short, you should keep the RSD.

But if you still want to, you can remove the wlw link, which I still do.

By: Joseph Scott

Joseph Scott — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:58:48 +0000

I recommend not disabling these. The RSD link is used by blog clients for discovery of the XML-RPC API end point. Removing will cause problems for many other blog clients, not just Windows Live Writer users.